Gard Communications

Gard Communications is a Portland agency that mixes public relations with creative and digital work. It helps organisations plan their messages, get them into the media and handle a crisis, while also making the websites, films and designs that carry those messages. Its work reaches across the Northwest and nationally.

What Gard Communications offers

• Strategy — planning campaigns and making complex issues easier to explain.
• Public relations — media coverage, promoting ideas and crisis communication.
• Public affairs — building common ground with stakeholders on policy and public issues.
• Creative — campaigns carried out across media channels for different audiences.
• Digital — website design built around users, plus social media work to lift online engagement.
• Storytelling — writing, filming, editing and design.

Who it works with

The agency works with companies, foundations, nonprofits, universities, health centres and government agencies, locally and across the United States. Past work includes projects for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde.

Key facts

• Based in: Portland, Oregon
• Founder: Brian Gard
• Leadership: Liz Fuller, President and CEO
• Team: account managers, copywriters, a social media strategist, a creative director and a lead developer